Article ID: 293420
Article Last Modified on 10/31/2006
APPLIES TO
- Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional Edition
This article was previously published under Q293420
SUMMARY
In the Disk Management snap-in, if you right-click a simple volume on a dynamic disk, the Add Mirror option is unavailable; you cannot create a software mirror in Windows 2000 Professional.
MORE INFORMATION
Creating a fault-tolerant (FT) sets, such as a mirrored set or a redundant array of independent disks (RAID) Level 5 (also known as striped with parity) volume, is not available on computers running Windows 2000 Professional. This option is available only in Windows 2000 Server products. However, you can use a computer that is running Windows 2000 Professional to create mirrored volumes on a remote computer that is running Windows 2000 Server.
For additional information, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:
235264 Imported Volume Is Displayed with Failed Status
Additional query words: mirror volume mmc partition dynamic fault tolerant striped set
Keywords: kbinfo KB293420
